Nellie Bly 
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings [EPUB ebook] 

This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possib …

This volume, first published in 1987, was the first to examine in depth the religious thought of Colonel Mu»ammar al-Qadhdhafi and its central place in his political, social and economic theories. T …

Thomas Cartwright was the leader of the Elizabethan Puritans and his intellectual pre-eminence was widely acknowledged. Standard-bearer of the Prebytero-Puritans against Whitgift, he was held to have …

Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiographers, sharing none of the current preoccupation with individuality and the unique self. The write …

A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed place within women»s studies courses and the women»s movement. Feminist Review is produced by a London-based …

‘…And Then I Became Gay is about the lives of young men who express the complications, adversities, and satisfactions of being a sexual outsider in North America during the 1980s and 1990s. Consist …

Here, Jayne L. Warner has created a unique biographical tapestry that illuminates not only the life of one of Turkey»s leading literary and cultural authorities, but also the emergence of a republic …

Iceberg Slim»s third slice of ghetto life is recounted straight from the hip by Otis Tilson, a schizophrenic and ageing drag queen. However, the dominating presence and epicentre of this tragic tale …

»An honest, compelling and important account, and a critical plea for a fusion of farming, food and nature to provide global ecological security» CHRIS PACKHAM Why are so many animals facing extinc …